Gaza (QNN)- The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said that 15-year-old Maisara Musa Abu Shalouf was murdered by an Israeli sniper’s bullet in his abdomen in Jabalya during Friday’s Great Return March.

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Health Ashraf al Qudrah said that 17 Palestinians were injured while dozens of others were suffocated during the Israeli repression of the peaceful weekly protest eastern Gaza strip.

In the same vein, local sources said that Israeli forces -stationed on the other side of the separation barrier- opened fire and threw tear gas at dozens of dozens of young men and women, who were preparing to participate in the weekly protests, killing the 15-year-old child and injuring 12 with live bullets and dozens of others with tear gas.

Thousands of Palestinians participated in the 54th protest of the weekly Great Return March protests in on the borders separating Gaza strip from the Palestinian lands, occupied in 1948.